POSTERN GATE AND WALLS

POSTERN GATE AND WALLS, BLACK LION HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1371878
Date first listed:: 25-Oct-1989
List Entry Name:: POSTERN GATE AND WALLS
Statutory Address:: POSTERN GATE AND WALLS, BLACK LION HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1371878
Date first listed:: 25-Oct-1989
List Entry Name:: POSTERN GATE AND WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: POSTERN GATE AND WALLS, BLACK LION HILL

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: POSTERN GATE AND WALLS, BLACK LION HILL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Northampton
National Grid Reference:: SP 74848 60414

Details

SP 76 SW 5/10

BLACK LION HILL Postern Gate and Walls

II Walls and gateway. Medieval re-erected 1879. Ironstone. Double chamfered plinth. Wall with off-centre gateway. The gateway is flanked by buttresses with a triple pointed arch, and a plank door with above a tall gable with ashlar coping and moulded kneelers. To the left an 8 metre stretch of wall with double chamfered coping, to the right a similar 10 metre wall with an iron gateway inserted.

Listing NGR: SP7484860414

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Legacy System number:: 232282
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.